Thinkrotron, an interactive experiment

The Atelier Arts Sciences, the CCSTI la Casemate and the ESRF Synchrotron have invited Laurent Mulot, graphic artist for a residency on the territories of the Scientific Peninsula and the Chorrier-Berriat district in Grenoble.

Artist : Laurent Mulot
Associated researchers : ESRF Synchrotron

The aim of the residency is to carry out an investigation through photography, video and audio recording on the territory of Synchrotron localized on the Scientific Peninsula as well as with inhabitants of the Chorier-Berriat district.

The question to be answered is our relationship with memories, precisely with digital memory, as well as the district’s inhabitants’ (scientist or not) relationship with this one-of-a-kind research cluster.

The project aims at setting in motion some poetry in the Synchrotron’s memory bank and visualising on stage our relationship with research and scientists.
They have also planned to set up a concrete, physical idea sharing network, as well as a virtual network through the internet and other messaging devices throughout the city and the region, to enquire about the relationship between science and arts.
The residency will conclude at the end of 2012 and will lead afterwards to an interactive exhibition in 2013. This exhibition will be unveiled at the Rencontres-i Arts Sciences Biennale 2013.

Laurent Mulot
Lives and works in Lyon. Graduated in Visual Arts from University Panthéon-Sorbonne, his main interest lies in audiovisual media (photography, video, audio recording) and in interactive installations. Since 2003, he has been focusing his work on the notion of territory : "Middle of Nowhere" implanted on six continents http://mofn.org. In 2007, he collaborates with the Nuclear Physics Institute in Lyon (IPNL) for the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lyon, which will result in a project called "Augenblick", a research effort at the intersection of scientific and societal imaginaries sparked by the LHC experiment at CERN http://augenblick.fr. He also brought his collaboration to the event called "La nuit des particules" (Particles Night) at the Grenoble University Campus in 2011, in collaboration with the CCSTI. He is currently working on a new project, "Aganta Kairos" in partnership with the ANTARES experiment.